I totally just bought one of these.
Limited edition of 20. Hand painted. Makes weird sound. $126. How can you go wrong?
http://www.makenoisemusic.com/moddemod.html
Friday, March 21, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
AFG Pre-Order
I did it! Two AFGs have been Pre-Ordered as of this morning.
What's also cool is that these pre-order units will be a limited edition run on gold and black PCB, hand signed by Mike Brown.
I really hope I've got my case all finished by the time they arrive! I can't wait to fire them up.
Check out the info page for Pre-Ordering or just to check out some audio clips.
http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com/
[UPDATE]: I got an email from Shawn, I'm #'s 18 and 19! WooHOO!
What's also cool is that these pre-order units will be a limited edition run on gold and black PCB, hand signed by Mike Brown.
I really hope I've got my case all finished by the time they arrive! I can't wait to fire them up.
Check out the info page for Pre-Ordering or just to check out some audio clips.
http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com/
[UPDATE]: I got an email from Shawn, I'm #'s 18 and 19! WooHOO!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Korg MS-10 for Nintendo DS
This is so bad ass I can hardly speak...
http://www.aqi.co.jp/product/ds10/en/index.html
I have tons of fun with Elektroplankton on my DS...I can only imagine the fun that can be had with this.
Notice how the sequencer can actually accept realtime changes from controls like parameter automation that would be found in any common DAW.
It's Japan only...but I'll be looking to snap it up through some importer once it's released.
http://www.aqi.co.jp/product/ds10/en/index.html
I have tons of fun with Elektroplankton on my DS...I can only imagine the fun that can be had with this.
Notice how the sequencer can actually accept realtime changes from controls like parameter automation that would be found in any common DAW.
It's Japan only...but I'll be looking to snap it up through some importer once it's released.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Felix on Trash Arcade: Now annoying even more people
I'm extremely pleased to announce that I've been invited to contribute to Trash Arcade.
My first post is already live. Subscribe and enjoy.
My first post is already live. Subscribe and enjoy.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Best Fucking Fucker vid yet!
I don't know why I didn't see this one already, but it's awesome.
This is why Eric is my hero.
This is why Eric is my hero.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Devi Ever Dream Mangler (hypedition)
Video demo of the Devi Ever Dream Mangler...my possibly one of a kind, Hypedition!
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The downtime is killing me
Fuck...it's been forever since I updated here. All I have are the usual excuses...
It's busy at work
I'm tired
The modular case still isn't put together
waahh waahh wahhh
Fuck.
The Devi Ever Bit Mangler and Dream Mangler showed up! :D Expect a video this weekend.
It's busy at work
I'm tired
The modular case still isn't put together
waahh waahh wahhh
Fuck.
The Devi Ever Bit Mangler and Dream Mangler showed up! :D Expect a video this weekend.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Electrical Engineering is Hard
So after a long sit-down with one of my engineer friends at work, I finally had enough understanding to make my first working circuit (an op amp booster w/low cut)! I've been able to play around with it further, as well as incorporate things from other schematics and still have it work, so I'm stoked. It's pretty simple as far as pedals go, but I'm happy to actually have accomplished something now. The hours spent obtaining no result where starting to become very frustrating and VERY un-motivating.
My experience so far with electrical engineering is much harder than my experience with software engineering. It's quite confusing...most of which probably brought on by many incorrect assumptions. In particular, I keep thinking of the flow of the circuit like the flow of an audio signal. Which, in some ways, is very similar if not the same, but it's also in many ways, not the same at all. For example, I was looking at an example schematic of how the TubeScreamer tone control works (I'm not looking to build a tubescreamer...yeck...just looking for academic purposes). The tone control was basically a pot with it's wiper connected to ground through a capacitor...with it's 1 and 3 lugs going from the negative input of an op amp back to the audio input. What I couldn't understand is how this worked as a bi-polar tone control...why does turning it one way roll off highs, and the other way roll off bass...I could only see that it would roll off highs. That is, until I realized that turning the one way caused the audio input signal to flow to ground through that cap too!
I've made up the following mnemonic to help me remember:
SAWTGTG
"Shit Always Wants To Go To Ground"
:D
I made another trip out to Halted yesterday...god I love that place. They didn't have several of the things I was looking for this time though; particularly nuts to replace those Vector nuts for the rails. Their screw/nut stock ratio is a bit lopsided...many more screws available than nuts. They were a bit short on potentiometers as well... It certainly is *THE* place for resistors, caps, diodes, and transistors though...ICs as well. I'm sure Halted is going to be a weekly visit for a long time to come.
Fun stuff for this weekend is now officially over though...it's time to do the taxes.
My experience so far with electrical engineering is much harder than my experience with software engineering. It's quite confusing...most of which probably brought on by many incorrect assumptions. In particular, I keep thinking of the flow of the circuit like the flow of an audio signal. Which, in some ways, is very similar if not the same, but it's also in many ways, not the same at all. For example, I was looking at an example schematic of how the TubeScreamer tone control works (I'm not looking to build a tubescreamer...yeck...just looking for academic purposes). The tone control was basically a pot with it's wiper connected to ground through a capacitor...with it's 1 and 3 lugs going from the negative input of an op amp back to the audio input. What I couldn't understand is how this worked as a bi-polar tone control...why does turning it one way roll off highs, and the other way roll off bass...I could only see that it would roll off highs. That is, until I realized that turning the one way caused the audio input signal to flow to ground through that cap too!
I've made up the following mnemonic to help me remember:
SAWTGTG
"Shit Always Wants To Go To Ground"
:D
I made another trip out to Halted yesterday...god I love that place. They didn't have several of the things I was looking for this time though; particularly nuts to replace those Vector nuts for the rails. Their screw/nut stock ratio is a bit lopsided...many more screws available than nuts. They were a bit short on potentiometers as well... It certainly is *THE* place for resistors, caps, diodes, and transistors though...ICs as well. I'm sure Halted is going to be a weekly visit for a long time to come.
Fun stuff for this weekend is now officially over though...it's time to do the taxes.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
"Real" Guitar Hero
Ok, this is fucking rad! It's like Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but with a real guitar, playing *REAL* notes!
:D
I've always been really bad with practicing, this would certainly get me to do it more often.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
:D
I've always been really bad with practicing, this would certainly get me to do it more often.
http://www.guitarrising.com/
Monday, February 04, 2008
Eric Says Fuck You
The infamous Eric Barbour of Metasonix has officially moved his personal blog off of myspace onto Blogger.
Go read his rad shit...now!
Go read his rad shit...now!
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Modular Case: Row 1 Complete
effective...I've learned that the hard way I suppose.
Well since I'm blocked on working anymore on the case, I've got a good
excuse to work on that guitar pedal prototype. It's not the "Chop Shop" one that I mentioned last time, but rather a more immediately useful one. More details once it's working. :)
PS. I've signed up on VIRB. If any of you also have a VIRB page, hit me up.
http://www.virb.com/felixinferious
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Halted Electronics
I also found 4-40 screws for use with the Vector nuts, I picked up 50 of them for...wait for it...50 cents!!!
I got some extra parts for a guitar pedal idea I'm working on, plus a 3rd-hand tool, nicer wire stripper...walked out of there spending less than $40!
Offcially my new favorite place.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
And now...guitar pedals
As if I haven't started (and not yet finished) enough projects, I've now begun brain storming and sketching out a couple guitar pedal designs. I've got 4 partially worked out so far:
Murder Box - distortion (of what character I'm not yet sure)
Chop Shop - i don't even know what type this might be...the closest thing might be a tremolo
Wicked Switch - a pair of serial true-bypass loops with variable feedback in each
Strangler - a footswtich-able power sag box (to simulate dying battery)
I'm fairly excited about all of these, particularly the Chop Shop, as they are tools that I've wanted from way back when, but until recently, didn't understand were as easily achieved as they are. I know a lot of people get into DIY synth stuff when they get into modulars, but I seem to have gone full bore into guitar pedals.
While these are for my own personal use, I'd definitely be open to making and selling them if there seems to be a demand. I could see the Chop Shop being something people would really like, at least, if it turns out like I think it will. I'll save the details until I get closer to actually soldering the thing up and making sure it will work like I think. I've yet to make anything like it, so there's a high probability it won't work at all! ;D
In other unfinished project news, the Vector rails for the modular case finally arrived yesterday, but I've realized I've order the wrong AC inlet + fuse part which I'll have to exchange. I should come together fairly quickly though...I hope.
Murder Box - distortion (of what character I'm not yet sure)
Chop Shop - i don't even know what type this might be...the closest thing might be a tremolo
Wicked Switch - a pair of serial true-bypass loops with variable feedback in each
Strangler - a footswtich-able power sag box (to simulate dying battery)
I'm fairly excited about all of these, particularly the Chop Shop, as they are tools that I've wanted from way back when, but until recently, didn't understand were as easily achieved as they are. I know a lot of people get into DIY synth stuff when they get into modulars, but I seem to have gone full bore into guitar pedals.
While these are for my own personal use, I'd definitely be open to making and selling them if there seems to be a demand. I could see the Chop Shop being something people would really like, at least, if it turns out like I think it will. I'll save the details until I get closer to actually soldering the thing up and making sure it will work like I think. I've yet to make anything like it, so there's a high probability it won't work at all! ;D
In other unfinished project news, the Vector rails for the modular case finally arrived yesterday, but I've realized I've order the wrong AC inlet + fuse part which I'll have to exchange. I should come together fairly quickly though...I hope.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
NAMM recap
First off, I noticed my first few posts didn't have the body text for some reason, so I've scraped the text off the emails from my sent folder and updated the following posts:
Wretch Machine
Livewire AFG
Livewire Chaos Computer
NAMM was pretty fun this year, but I felt rushed and didn't get to see as much as I wanted to (or if I did, not for as long as I wanted to)...nor did it seem like I had enough time to talk to everyone I wanted to. Part of it was only being there for 2 days, the other part was getting a late start to the show both of those days (almost 1pm on Saturday and 12 on Sunday). Seems like 5-6 hours would be enough each day, but it's totally not enough.
I'm now just trying to catch up on work and the pile of emails in my inbox...any spare time I have will be either spent working on a pair of mastering projects I need to get done before next week or just trying to figure out how I'm going to be able to afford all the cool new shit this year. Oh yeah, and make the modular case, and finish the joystick controller, and make some BYOC guitar pedals...maybe make some music too ;)
Wretch Machine
Livewire AFG
Livewire Chaos Computer
NAMM was pretty fun this year, but I felt rushed and didn't get to see as much as I wanted to (or if I did, not for as long as I wanted to)...nor did it seem like I had enough time to talk to everyone I wanted to. Part of it was only being there for 2 days, the other part was getting a late start to the show both of those days (almost 1pm on Saturday and 12 on Sunday). Seems like 5-6 hours would be enough each day, but it's totally not enough.
I'm now just trying to catch up on work and the pile of emails in my inbox...any spare time I have will be either spent working on a pair of mastering projects I need to get done before next week or just trying to figure out how I'm going to be able to afford all the cool new shit this year. Oh yeah, and make the modular case, and finish the joystick controller, and make some BYOC guitar pedals...maybe make some music too ;)
Monday, January 21, 2008
Elektron MonoMachine mkII
especially quality ones and ones that are not marketed as "techno/
groove boxes". I'd really like to pick up a Monomachine, but I think
I'll get most of the modular stuff out of the way first. But, I love
the MachineDrum and this guy is the perfect parter.
Elecktron MachineDrum mkII
about getting one, it's better than ever. 64 steps, thinner chassis,
and better powersupply. Best. Drum Machine. Ever.
Moog Mulitpedal
expression pedal (meh) it's also a 4 out CV expression pedal; each
output of which can be programmer for a different range or even
direction! Oh yeah, and those settings can be stored as presets! Man
if this thing also had some programmable patch bay (Moog, please
please please make this) this would be the ultimate expression pedal.
This is definitely on my short list.
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